A Kentucky man who shot at Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg when he was a candidate in 2022 was sentenced Friday to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison after a tense sentencing hearing where Greenberg spoke of the harm the attack has caused.
Quintez Brown was arrested shortly after leaving Greenberg’s campaign office, where one of his six shots grazed Greenberg’s sweater. Four other staffers were in the room with Greenberg, and one of them rushed to close the door on Brown after he fired.
Greenberg, who was elected mayor later that year, said in court Friday that he saw a man he didn’t recognize come to the door of his campaign headquarters, and when a staffer tried to engage the man in conversation, “I saw a gun pointed directly at me and I’ll never forget the sound of those gunshots fired,” Greenberg told the court. Greenberg said in the ensuing days, he felt “fear and confusion that made me physically numb for days.”…